Grue Bags & Shops

Throughout the semester, the PGSA run a fortnightly series of alternating Grue Bags and Grue Shops. Here you will find a brief introduction to each kind of meeting, a recent history of talks, and upcoming presentations.

Grue Bags:

The Grue Bag Presentations are hour-long talks given by a UConn graduate student to the other UConn graduate students about once every four weeks.

Grue Shops:

The Grue Shops are workshops occurring about once every four weeks. These workshops focus on a paper by a UConn student, and are attended by UConn students. We read the paper prior to the workshop. During the workshop, after a brief summary of the paper by the presenter, we spend most of the hour giving them comments.

Fall 2015

Presenter

Date

Title

Type

Teresa Allen

Sept. 8

“Is Brandom a Conceptual Inflationist about Truth?”

Bag

Toby Napoletano

Sept. 22

“How Important are Truth Conditions for Truth-Conditional Semantics?”

Shop

Nathan Kellen

Oct. 6

“Should Truth Pluralists be Logical Pluralists?”

Shop

Jordan Ochs

Oct. 20

“A Critique of the Social Origins Hypothesis”

Shop

David Pruitt

Nov. 3

“Nominalism and Logic”

Bag

Colin McCullough-Benner

Nov 17

“Pluralism about Truth and Semantic Values”

Shop

Spring 2015

Presenter

Date

Title

Type

Nathan Sheff

Feb. 10

“Group Belief without Greedy Reductionism”

Bag

Nathan Kellen

Feb. 24

“Logical Consequence as a Functional Concept”

Bag

Tom Meagher

Mar. 24

“Domination and Peculiarity”

Shop

Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco

Apr. 7

“Suffering and Moral Responsibility”

Shop

Fall 2014

Presenter

Date

Title

Type

Nathan Kellen

Sep. 9

“The Role of Authors and Publishers in Massive, Serialised, Collaborative Fictions”

Bag

Andrew Parisi

Sep. 16

“Promissory Obligation and ‘Ought Implies Can’”

Shop

Nathan Sheff

Sep. 30

“Naturalizing Group Belief”

Bag

Michael Robillard

Oct. 14

“Exploitation and Doxastic Vulnerability: Expanding the Realm of Unreasonable Options”